Civility does not mean that we must like everyone. In fact, a true measure of one's civility is how we treat people that we really do not like or even respect. It's easy to respect those whom we do like; but civility is about how we treat other people, whatever our feelings about them may be.

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Pascal's Wager:  Do you choose to believe, or do you choose not to believe? If you choose to believe, you have nothing to lose, but if you choose not to believe, what are you really going to get?

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"I do not assign responsibility to a higher being. I think that we're responsible to each other."

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Religion is a bureaucracy between man and God.

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I think that the people who think God wrote a book called The Bible are just childish. Religion is so childish. What they're fighting about in the Middle East, it's so childish. These myths, these silly little stories that they believe in fundamentally, that they take over this little space in Jerusalem where one guy flew up to heavenno, no, this guy performed a sacrifice here a thousand million years ago. It's like, "Who cares? What does that have to do with spirituality, where you're really trying to get, as a human being and as a soul moving in the universe?" But I do believe in a God, yes.

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The Onion: Is there a God?

Berke Breathed: Well, I bloody well hope so. Like Ricky Ricardo used to yell, "Luuuucy... You got some 'splainin' to dooooooo." I'd start with Hitler surviving the childhood flu in 1902. I'd end with mosquitoes and rap music. What's the plan, fer Chrissake? No offense.